The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-05-12
Random Thoughts.
J. H. NJ.

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1t has become a subject of genera
remark that Jackson is a remarkably
quiet, peaceable town. The Jackson
of to-day compared with the Jackson
of twenty years ago, seems like diff
ferent town in different country
Then there was reign Of lawlessnes'
and drunkenness which rendered the
town dangerous place at times, and
made ve;y bad showing for the town
to persons OF the outside All the
police powers seemed helpless regard
the suppression of the reign of vice
This state Of affairs continued for a
time. finally drawing to practical
close in the drunken murders that
seemed to be last desperate effort on
the part of the Evil One. Good peo-
pie during all these years had been
paying the exp enses of the liquor
crime and praying for better state of
things, and as a relief from the former
and a reward for the latter, public
sentiment gradually turned towari
the side of sobriety and law. The
liquor crime has cost the people of
Jackson County thousands Of dollars
that night have been used in public
improvements and giving employment
to worthy men, The internal busi-
ness has held the town back for many
years, and consumed the peoples mon
ey in useless expenditure. Gradually,
however, the better judgment Of the
people has asserted itself, and steady
growth of public sentiment has OBJ
tanned, until to-day the doggery busi-
ness is considered utterly mean and
contemplate. This state of public
opinion has been years in perfecting,
and extends throughout Jackson
County. The doggery business is so
contemplate that no man goes into
one of these dens without feeling that
he is doing not only wrong, but an
excessively mean thing This is as it
should be. 1t is the kind Of atmos-
phere in which to educate the young,
and give strength to the character of
the community. We can look upon
the lonely doggeries with feeling Of
pride and satisfaction, and rejoiced
that the people have advanced thus far
in the right path. Several doggeries
in the County have recently quit the
devilish traffic, others have been forced
out, and those remaining are not ex-
cessively prosperous. This is a kind
of prohibition that counts. We would
not discourage the efforts of temper
ance people on different lines, but are
glad that this method is gradually
gaining, in this community.
Some Of our doggery-keepers have
battled this growing temperance idea
for years, and-have been much incens-
ed at its growth. They have tried diff
ferent methods Of staying its course,
but the good work has gone right
along. The only faint, lingering hope
the doggery interest now sees, is to
work through the State influence of
the liquor power. The Cincinnati
gang has it's influences in motion, and
having control Of the action Of the
Democratic party in the State, has
turned its attention latterly to the
capture of the Republican party.
Statesmen of the Halstead stamp have
boldly demanded that every Republi-
can who dares to assert himself as a
temperance man shall be fired out Of
the party, and the beautiful design of
a whisky bottle and beer-keg inscribed
upon the Republican banner. This is
not question where the prohibition
party comes up for consideration, it is
a question of the complete capture of
the great Republican party and max
ing it the servant and tool of the beer
and whisky jerkers Of Cincinnati.
The great party which liberated four
millions of people and made men and
women Of them, is asked to pledge it
self to the destruction of great peo-
pie by making brut' of them. Il is
a desperate case on the part Of the
jerkers, who have put their money in
to it, and have paid agents in/every
temperance town, mouthing about and
threatening temperance Republicans.
Every objection to temperance Re-
publican comes from the scum and
riff-raff of the lowest doggeries. Such
is the influence the intelligent people
Of Jackson County and the State Of
Ohio are asked to support and endorse!
The great majority of Republicans
are temperance men, and cannot be
swayed by the low-down doggery in
huence which is doing the paid work
of the Devil. | have no fight to make
against any Republican. My fight is
against the common enemies-Democ-
racy and whisky. Those who howl
upon the track of sober, temperance
Republicans, could find a great deal
more profitable employment. The
spectacle of Murat Halstead and the
little Cincinnati gang waving beer
bottles over the heads of the Republi-
cans of Ohio and demanding that they
get down OH their knees and worship
the rotten proportions Of King Gam
brinus, is not one that will become
popular People see through it. The
wretches who seek to drag back the